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NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. Three persons were badly injured by lightning near Walla Walla, Wash. Indications are that the high price of wheat will raise the export prices of flour. Latest census reports show that the Indian population of the United States is increasing. The jury reform bill advocated by Wilson has been passed by the New Jersey legislature. Associate Editor Mabie, of the Out look, says Japan wants no war with the United States. A column of grassohppers five miles wide and 18 miles long is devastating portions of New Mexico. Bulgaria has issued an emphatic note of protest to the powers against the attitude of Greece and Servia. President Wilson denounces the "in- siduous and industrious" lobby which is opposing the tariff bill in Washing ton. MOVE SLOW FAVORS FEDERAL RAILROAD Pest in New Mexico Not IJkely to Cover Much Ground. Wilson Makes Known Ilia Attitude on Alnskan Question. Clovis, N. M. The great army of grasshoppers which has invaded New Mexico on the east has reached Elida, Roosevelt county. The army is 20 miles long and four miles deep and the grasshoppers are literally stripping the country bare in their path. They are moving westward across the central part of the state at the rate of a mile a day. A mass meeting is to be held here at which funds will l>e raised and a plan devised for resisting the invading army before they reach Clovis. Washington, D. C. President Wil son told Senators Chamberlawe- ami Junes Wednesday that he felt kindly toward the proposal for government construction of railroads in Alaska. The two senators sought the Presi dent’s views on securing Alaskan leg islation during the present session. Wilson expressed his hope that a bill might be passed, but made it clear that, in view of the urgency for tariff reform, he would be unable as yet to recommend action, intimating that if the Alaskan question could be dis posed of without interfering with those subjects, he would lend his sup port to a bill within the near future. Senator Jones said, on leaving the executive offices, that he was confi dent a bill would be reported to the territories committee and probably acted on before the tariff was taken up. Governor Ammons, of Colorado, and Senators Thomas ami Shafroth called on the President to urge that the gov ernment pursue a more liberal |s>llcy toward opening agricultural lands in the West. They told the President that the withdrawal of lands from public entry had discourage)! settlers, and that every effort of the govern ment should be toward development of these regions. GRASSHOPPERS OFFERS 52 SUMMER COURSES FARMERS’ FREE SOCIAL GIVEN O. A. C. Six Week«’ Session From Brownsville Warehouse Company la Host to Public. June 16 to July 25. 37 DIE WHEN BIG PIER FALLS Queen’s Birthday Celebrants at tang Beach Victims. Fifty Others Badly Injured Part Brownsville — The second annual of Auditorium Craahea Down "Farmers' Social” was successfully and Adds to Horror. given here last Saturday night under the auspices of the Brownsville Ware house company, of which Charles Ix»ng Beach, Cal.—Too frail to up- Sterling ia manager, and while ar hold the burden of nearly 10,000 hu ranged for agriculturists, many citi man being* assemble«! for the festivi zens of thia place were present in ad Washington, D. C.—The grasshop ties of the British Empire «lay celebra dition to 400 farmers and their fami per invasion of Northeastern Mexico, tion, the land end of the big double a telegraphic report of which reached lies. decked pier in front of the city audi the department of agriculture Wednes The program was given in the large torium collapsed Saturday. Hundnsls day from A. G. Hammer, one of its hay warehouse of the company, which agents, is not causing alarm among of [MTHons on the top deck were was transformed into an opera house, dropped <lown on the heads of other officials here. and consisted of music, songs, ad Prof. F. M. Webster, in charge of hundreds crowded on the deck below. dresses and finally the rendition of a the work of insect investigation, said The lower deck then gave way and all drama by high school students. Mr. the pest was not likely to spread over were dropped down a chute of shat Lyons, of the warehouse company, a large territory, as it could be suc tered woodwork to the tldewash<<<l described the methods pursued by the cessfully fought because it had not sands 25 feet below. company in the past few years in traveled far or done much damage to Thirty-three persons mostly women building up a large market for the were killed by the shiver«’«! timbers crops. products of this section. During the The report from Mr. Hammer shows or crushed to «leath by th«’ falling bod past year the company had paid out it is the “differential grasshopper.” ies. Fifty more were seriously In over $50,000 in cash to the farmers not the fast-moving variety which jured. while hysteria and paralyzing alone. GRASSHOPPER PEST APPEARS spread over nearly the entire country fright disable«! scores. The unique method of entertaining A section of the auditorium also the farmers was inaugurated last year The Supreme court has decided that in the 80's. Ninety Square Miles of Insects went down in the crash am! the debris by the company, at the close of a suc a patent does not 'give the patentee Devastate New Mexico. from it wus added to the wreckage cessful shipping season, and proved no the right to fix the retail price of an WILSON S ATTITUDE IN DOUBT less a success than the one given last Amarillo, Tex. Traveling north- that fell on top of the dead and In- article. Dislikes Exemption Clauses in Sun week. eastward a column of grasshoppers ? jured. The victims were mostly subjects Mrs. Pankhurst has again been five miles wide and 18 miles long is dry Civil Bill. and former subjects of Great Britain placed in jail, having sufficiently re WILL GROW BETTER PRUNES reported in Northeastern New Mexico. Washington, D. C.—Whether Presi covered her health to serve another Reports that the millions of grssshop- resident in Southern California. The portion of her three-year sentence. dent Wilson will sign or veto the sun pers seem to spread as they travel and dead were taken to the National Guard Association Thinks Results Might dry civil bill with its clause exempt ulso the apjiearance of small bodies of armory, while the injure»! were hur Police and detectives of Atlanta. Easily Be Improved. grasshoppers in sections of West ried to various hospitals in thia city G a., are at loggerheads over a murder ing labor unions and farmers’ organiz Salem — That the prune growers of Texas have caused fear of a general and Is>a Angeles. case, and much interesting informa ations from prosecution under certain All the doctors in the city, rein the Northwest are determined to ob graashop|MT pest in the Southwest, es tion is being given to the public by funds set aside for the operation of forced by surgeons and nurses from pecially in Texas, Western Oklahoma tain better results in future ia illus both sides. lx>a Angeles, were called to care for the anti-trust laws still is an open trated by the proceedings of a meeting and New Mexiso. Four Oregon balloonists made a safe question. of the Northwest Packers* association The New Mexico column ia reported the injured. Th«’ Empire day parade, (the princi landing in the Cascade mountains, af held recently in Portland, H. S. Gile, between Elida anil Texline. The President sent for Senator Mar ter traveling 75 miles in a northeast secretary, making public the proceed It is reported they are entirely de pal tea tore of the celebration In honor erly direction from Roseburg. They tin, of Virginia, and Representative ings here. The principal subject for nuding the land of grass, as well as of the late Queen Victoria’s birth an Fitzgerald, of New York, chairman of reached a height of 12,000 feet. discussion was the possibility of over destroying all kinds of foliage. Stock, niversary, had just end«’«! ami the par the two congressionl committees on coming the mistakes of 1911, and. if especially sheep, have been left in ticipants, with thousands of visitors, An English aviator and his passen l>ossible, arriving at a basis by which starving condition by lack of pastur were crowiiing up the steps of the pier ger volplaned 1200 feet to the earth appropriations, and talked at length and 'surging toward the auditorium the prune could be standardized. It is age after the grasshoppers passed. and made a safe landing when their with them about the bill. At the con one of the great industries of the Government, state and railroad ex when the pier floor sagg«d. machine caught fire. The tank explod clusion of the conference White House An instant later the supports gave Northwest, and yields to Oregon perts have combined to fight the grass ed an instant after they landed. way and the sound of breaking tim officials were silent. The President growers alone about $1,000,000 an hoppers. bers mingled with the shrieks and nually. The 1911 crop, for some un Miss Nellie O’Farrel), who was was informed that the particular thing cries of the victims as all went down known reason, did not keep well, ami known as the "first wireless girl,” that was holding up the bill in confer Health Board Has Puzzle. into a mass of broken w«xx! and writh as a result has greatly injured the has given up her profession and got ence was a dispute as to an appropri Sacramento — The State board of ing human forms on the sand. ation for managers supervising na business. Representatives of various married. tional soldiers’ homes. His visitors agricultural colleges attended the health is confronted by one of its After 40 years the Canadian govern said they expected to reach an agree Ix>ng Beach. Cal. Later. Prospec meetings in Portland and gave their most difficult problems in recent years ment has rewarded William H. Lang, in having placed before it for decision tive dapiage suits (aggregating proba ment by the end of the week. views, which the growers say will be URGES BETTER MANAGEMENT a resident of Portland, for his partici It is considered likely that the Pres of great benefit to them. There will the question of when do human bones bly $1,000,000 or more, and a gram! pation in repulsing the threatened ident will make known in a few days cease to become a part of the human jury investigation are engaging the Fenian uprising at Cornwall, Ont., in just what his position will be toward Just Common Sense Applied Says l>e concerted action in an effort to body. This question must be decided attention of the city officials as a place the crop on a higher scale and 1873. before the board can give its |>ermis- probable outcome of th«’ disaster Sat the much talked of exemption clause. Student Engineer. obtain the best results. sion to Chinese at Auburn for a ship urday in which 37 persons lost their A sudden demand from the South The President has been informed Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- ment of the bones of dead Orientals lives in a collapse of the municipal raised the price of potatoes at Tacoma that if he objects to the attaching of Fine Fair Garden Planted. vallis—Scientific management is noth by freight and parcel post to San pier, just after the close of the British to $12 per ton. legislation to an appropriation bill he ing more or less than the application Salem -That the floral decorations Francisco for exportation to China. Empire Day pageant. The first Hood River strawberries could accompany his signature with a of common sense to any business prop and landscape work will be the most Arrangements are being made by The weakness of the pier, which memorandum of protest on that point. sold in Portland at 40 cents a box. osition,” says C. B. Auel, director of elaborate at the state fair this year He likewise has been told that the ex standards, processes and materials for ■ ever attempted in Oregon is the de Chinese throughout the different sec was built eight years ago and never President Wilson has ordered an ex emption clause would not affect such the Westinghouse Electrical company, claration of Hugh Bryan, state land tions of California to send to Chinn a repaired in that particular portion, is large consignment of skeletons of believed to have been due to ilecay substantive law and that prosecutions in the first of a series of articles deal scape artist. tensive shake-up in the Civil service. Three Portland firms of any violations of the law by labor ing with phases of scientific manage will each exhibit 300 new varieties of Chinese who have died in this state. causfxj by the action of salt air on Prospects of a limited fruit crop in unions or by farmers’ organizations The law prohibits shipment of human wood and its iron fasteners and sup California will mean higher prices for could still be accomplished through ment, in the current number of the | ¡dahlias, many of which have never bodies unless hermetically sealed in a ports. However, it was declare«! that Student Engineer, just off the press at been seen in this part of the state. Northwest growers. a much stronger structure might have other funds at the disposal of the de the Oregon Agricultural College. The Mr. Bryan has planned a bed to con metal casket. In order to grant the request of the been wreck«’*! under the same circum Twenty-five persons, 15 of them partment of justice. articles were secured by J K. Fair tain 1000 begonias, 600 of the tuber- Placer County Chinese the board of stances, as the participants of the big Chinese, were injured in a train wreck child, Portland, a graduate of 1911, , ; ous variety and 400 Vernons. Mass health must rule that a skeleton in the parade marche«! on the pier in step. on the Canadian Pacific near Calgary. TROUBLE IN MEXICO FEARED who is now with the Westinghouse | : planting of begonias on such a scale form of dried bones is not a human Military men ;*ointed out that the company at East Pittsburg. He has an as is contemplated, except in interna- body, or a part of a hmuan body. Three were killed and nine injured rythmic vibration create«! by the Ambassador's Wife Making Hur by the explosion of a coast defense article on “Production and Works j tional exhibits, has never been at- The object of the law is to safe measure«! trca<l of thousands of feet Management,” to which he appends a ! tempted in this country, and the bed guard health. gun at Fort Moultrie, Charleston har ried Preparations for Flight. caus«xi a tremendous strain on the bor. series of references for the study of will be one of the greatest attractions sup|s>rts, which already had been Mexico City—Considerable alarm works management. at the fair. The usual planting of heavily burdened by the crowd which Settlers Forced to Pay. was created in the American colony The initial article of the issue is on throng«?d In front of the d<x>rs await here Wednesday when it became “Forestry as an Engineering Sci astern, cannas, roses, geraniums, glad- Washington, D. C. - More than PORTLAND MARKETS 10.- known that Mrs. Henry Lane Wilson, I ence,” by H. S. Newins, of Yale, now ; iolas, etc., on the principal court of 000 farmers on reclamation projects ing admittance, an«l they recalled that the grounds, is being done. of the West will be affected by the military columns romprising large Wheat, — Track prices : Club, 94c wife of the American ambassador, was instructor in forestry at O. A. C. making hasty preparations to depart Supreme court’s decision that they numbers of men always break step per bushel; bluestem, $10/1.02; forty Will R. Varner, of Enterprise, a Wool In Demand at Echo. must pay to the govenment the cost of when crossing even iron bridges, in fold, 95@96e; red Russian, 92c; val for the United States within a few graduate of last June, now with the days. Echo—The second wool sale of the maintaining and operating the various order to avoid causing collapse or seri ley, 94c. Westinghouse company, has an article In some quarters the announcement entitled “Value Graduation; What?” ! season in Eastern Oregon was held at reclamation projects, pending their ous damage. Oats — No. 1 white, $32 per ton; is construed to mean that Ambassador Another contribution is by Thomas D. i Echo Saturday. Regardless of the completion. stained and off grade, less. Chinese General Killed. The decision was in the suit by I). Corn — Whole, $28.50; cracked, Wilson has received information of Lewis, of the Packard Motor Co., on ; fact that the duty on raw wool seems serious impending trouble and that he factory efficiency and production. doomed to go, the bidding was as high P. Baker and other farmers on the $29.50 per ton. Shanghai—General Hsu Pao San Millstuffs — Bran, $24,500/25 per is taking the opportunity at hand to Forms of railway maps are discussed | as that of last year, in fact, a higher Sunnyside unit of the Yakima, Wash., was killed by a bomb while opening a ton; shorts, $26,500/27; middlings, remove his family from the danger by Ben A. Eddy, of Roseburg, a jun price was paid for the same grade of project to have the reclamation serv- zone. The ambassador himself de ior in the college; and L. E. Johnson, j wool than was received for the 1912 ' ice enjoined from cutting off the wa box which was suppos«*»! to contain $31. At the of Carlton, a senior, has written on ■ clip. The sales totaled 318,000 ter supply to enforce collection of such porcelain. He ha<! set for a piece of Barley—-Feed, $26.50 per ton; brew clined to discuss this matter. porcelain, and ’when the box arrived ambassadorial mansion it was said pounds, at prices ranging from 12 charges. ing, nominal; rolled, $28,500/29. the relative economy of a gas engine he attempted to pry off the cover. A cents to 141 cents a pound, as follows: Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, that Mrs. Wilson was returning home using kerosene and gasoline. terrific expoaion resulted, and he was on a visit to friends and relatives. Election Change Mooted. Antone Vey, 100,000 pounds to choice, $1801,19; alfalfa, $130114. Prof. S. H. Graf, of the experimen-1 hurled with great force to the opposite Onions—Oregon, $1.25 per sack. Washington, D. C.—The new plan «■nd of the room. A servnnt also was tai engineering department, describes Crimmins & Pierce, at 14 cents; Wil liam Pedro, 48,000 pounds to Hallo Lane Announces Purpose. Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per the new impact testing machine, his for national election and the assem instantly killed. The general, who dozen; asparagus, Oregon, 75c0/$1.25 Washington, D. C. — To make the own invention, just built by the stu well, Jones & McDonald, at llj cents; bling of congress was proposed by was known as "Tiger Hsu,” was a per dozen: beans, 100/12c per pound; acquisition of homesteads as easy as dents. The frontspiece shows the John Kilkenny, 100,000 pounds to Du Senator Works in two bills. He strong supporter of President Yuan cabbage, 2|0;3c pound; cauliflower, machine, which is by far the heaviest four, at lit cents; B. Doherty, 70,000 would change election day from No Shi Kai, ami the objected of bitter possible in strict conformity with the pounds to Green, at 12 cents. Joseph $2 per crate; head lettuce, $2.50 per piece which has yet come out of the crate; peas, 7c per pound; peppers, law for bona fide settlers and genuine college foundry. The magazine con Cunha, who has 80,000 pounds, and vember to August and provide for an hatred to the Southern extremists. nual sessions of congress from the homemakers and as difficult as possible 350140c; radishes, 10(6,12c dozen; tains ten other illustrations, including William Slusher, who has 112,000 Allien Approach Peace. rhubarb, 10/2c pound; spinach, 75c for dummy entrymen or speculators is engineering projects, works and dia pounds, were offered 14 cents and 12J first Monday of October to the first Monday in June. Congressmen would the announced purpose of Secretary Ixtndon The allies informed Osman cents, respectively, but refused the per box; garlic, 70/;8c per pound. grams. assume office in October, immediately Pazim Pasha at a joint meeting of the offers. Potatoes — Burbanks, 401650c per Lane in beginning an investigation of after the election, and the President Balkan and Ottoman peace delegates the rules and regulations of the land hundred; new, 2j0i2Jc pound. Hood River Work Is Resumed. and Vice President would take office that they had no intention of asking Green Fruit — Apples, nominal; office. A month ago Secretary Lane Bandon Wharfage Improved. Hood River—Work on the pipe line in November. The plan is not looked for further modification of the peace strawberries, Oregon, $3.50(6 4; Flor sent a special representative to South Bandon — Many changes are being upon with favor to any extent. Dakota to investigate the specific and new power house of the Pacific terms already put forward. This an in, $1.75 per crate; cherries, $1.50 nouncement ia regarded as an import per box; bulk, 12}c per pound; goose charges against county land agents, Power & Light company, which was made along the waterfront here this Teacher-Murderer Convicted. and the above is the result. ant step in the direction Jof peace, ns stopped last week because of orders summer. The warehouses are increas berries, 5c. Salt Lake City — Caleb A. Inlow, the Turks announced that if any m«x!i- from the New York office of the con ing their facilities for the handling of Poultry—Hens, 15c; broilers, 25c; Cotton Sellers Target. cern, because of an alleged stringency freight. The passenger traffic in and former school, principal and juvenile fications were suggested it would turkeys, live, 190/20c; dressed, j Washington, D. C. — Demand for in the bond market, has been resumed, out of port and up-river is taxing the 1 probation officer at Bingham, Utah, [ leave the door open for further de choice, 25c; ducks, old, 16if^l8c; The Co was found guilty in the Utah District mands on the allies. young, 240125c; geese, young, 140116c. legal action against those who sold between 50 and 75 men having been capacity of the steamers. Eggs — Oregon ranch, case count, cotton to James A. Patten and others taken on. The company will develop quille River Transportation company I court here of second degree murder. I Morgan Gift to Be Tax-Free, 1810/19c per dozen; candled, 200121c. of the “cotton pool,” indicted in 1910 5000 horsepower at the new power has just added a new, modern steamer I Inlow and his wife were charged with Butter—City creamery cubes, 28c for running a corner, was made in the house, and the foundation has been with a capacity of 120 phssengers. having killed Thomas E. White, a> Albany, N. Y.—The valuable collec senate Wednesday by Senator Smith, built for another power house with a The old wharves of the A. F. Easter taxicab chauffeur, last October, to pre tion of works of art, pictures, books per pound; prints, 290/291c. of South Carolina, who said he had like capacity, which will be built brook company are being torn down, vent the latter telling of alleged ore [ ami antiques of the late J. Pierpont Pork—Fancy, ll^lljc per pound. that their entire waterfront may be thefts committed by Inlow. It is ex Morgan will be exempt from the state been assured that the department of whenever the business demands it. Veal—Fancy, 130/14c per pound. equipped with new docks. pected Mrs. Inlow will be released inheritance tax, provided the collec Hops—1912 crop, 12101,14c pound; commerce, if the senate would pass a without trial. Fishermen Cross Columbia. proper resolution, would investigate 1913 contracts, 120£13c. tion is turned over "to a municipal Buena Vista Crops Good. Wool—Eastern Oregon, 1O0J16C per thoroughly the selling end of the corporation of the state for educa Hood River—Hood River fishermen Bulgaria Fully Expects War. Buena Vista—Polk County’s show pound; valley, 1401.16c.; mohair, 1913 famous pool. tional purposes by the heirs within two are taking advantage of the Washing clip, 300133c per pound. ton laws, which require no licenses for ing for crops of grain, clover and fruit ■^Vienna— Bulgaria regards war as years.” The Omro«! bill, which so Taft’s Order Attacked. Cattle —Choice steers, $8.5001,9; fishing on the streams of that state are excellent and in all [districts farm inevitable, according to dispatches provides, was signed by Governor Sul good, $7.75(68.25; medium, $7.25(6 Servia’a demand for a zer Saturday? Washington, D. C.—A resolution to until after June 1, and every day j ers are optimistic concerning the sea from Sofia. 7.75; ehoice cows, $70/7.75; good, abrogate ex-President Taft’s order, large numbers of local anglers cross son’s prospects. In the hills of the revision of the alliance treaty is re Mines Tie Up Shipping. $6.50017; medium, $60/6.50; choice putting all fourth-class postmasters the Columbia and cast for steelheads county where the red soil is used for garded as an ultimatum, and it is ex calves, $8019; good heavy calves, into the civil service, was introduced and Dolly Vardens in the White Sal prunes and other fruits a heavy yield pected that the Bulgarian cabinet will Smyrna — Shipping Is completely $6.50017.50; bulls, $6,250/6.50. by Senator Overman. He declared he mon and Little White Salmon rivers. is expected. The yield of wool in the flatly refuse the demand and insist up paralyzed in these water on account of Hogs—Light, $8,250/8.50; heavy, had not conferred with President Wil The fishing seems better in the Wash county this year was light and farmers on! compliance with the treaty. recent accidents due to mines. The $6.50(67.40. son, or any cabinet officers about it, ington rivers than on Hood River, and do not approve of the present actions Eighty thousand troops are massed companies have warned incoming Sheep — Wethers, $5016; ewes, but believed the spirit of the civil ser a number of big catches have been of the President concerning the re near Sofia, and other troops are being steamers to remain away and outward- $3.85015. ductions on wool. hurried forward in Macedonia. vice law had been evaded. made there. bound vessels are afraid to leave port. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis A faculty of 72 instructional experts is announced fqr the summer session of the Oregon Agricultural College, which opens June 16 and con tinues to July 25. The bulletin an nouncing 52 courses of study, just off the press, is a book of 48 pages, con taining 52 illustrations of the work to be given and college activities. Besides the 51 regular members of the college faculty who will remain for the summer work, there have been secured 21 additional men and women, each an authority in his particular line of work, to take charge of differ ent branches of the work for teachers. These include President J. H. Acker man, of the Oregon Normal school at Monmouth; Miss Luna E. Bigelow, of the office of public roads of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; Supt. G. A. Briscoe, of the Ashland public schools; O. C. Brown, school superin tendent of Douglas county; Supt. J. A. Churchill, of the Baker city public schools; T. J. Gray, school superin tendent of Clackamas county; L. P. Harrington, state supervisor of indus trial education; Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secretary of the National Con sumer's League; J. K. Kerchen, man ual training supervisor of the Portland schools; City Superintendent R. W. Rirk. of Corvallis; City Superintend ent J. S. Landers, of Pendleton; N. C. Maris, supervisor of industrial educa tion working with Mr. Harrington; State Secretary Cornelia Marvin, of the Library commission; A. J. O’Reilly, rural school supervisor of Linn county; A. G. Raab, city super intendent of North Bend; W. W. Rutherford, city superintendent of McMinnville; Mrs. A. A. Sanborn, supervisor of domestic art in Port- land; H. C. Seymour, Polk county superintendent; A. C. Strange, city superintendent of The Dalles; Miss Lilian Tingle, domestic science super visor in Portland, and Dr. Calvin White, secretary of the state board of health. Prof. E. D. Ressler, director of the summer session, has put much thought and hard work into plans for making this session at the college a memorable one in its assistance to the teachers of the state.